Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:29:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I'm wondering who wrote:
> > > As linux-modules-extra-2.6-etchnhalf was not ready in time we decided to
> > > skip it for r4 and include it in r5.
>
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > Well done folks. You've again managed to break at least part of the
> > functionality of Debian Installer and, more importantly, left users with
> > a potentially unbootable system after installation.
>
> <fjp> You can now partition using loop-aes encryption, but the modules are not
> available for the installed system.
> <fjp> So you cannot access any loop-aes encrypted partitions.
> <fjp> Or (hopefully) the installation will fail during finish-install.
>
> Well, it would seem we have the first peice of errata for the end of
> http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/etchnhalf
How's this?
Index: etchnhalf.wml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/releases/etch/debian-installer/etchnhalf.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -p -r1.4 etchnhalf.wml
--- etchnhalf.wml 15 Jul 2008 08:56:10 -0000 1.4
+++ etchnhalf.wml 27 Jul 2008 21:17:42 -0000
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ release.
<h3 id="errata-r0">Errata specific to <q>etch-and-a-half</q></h3>
<p>
-No known issues.
+Partitions encrypted using loop-AES will not be accessable after installation.
+This issue is due to the absence of loop-aes kernel modules for the etchnhalf
+kernel. These modules will be made available in the next update of Debian
+GNU/Linux 4.0, 4.0r5.
</p>
</if-etchnhalf-released>
--
dann frazier
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